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Ashridge Commons and Woods

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Ashridge Commons and Woods is a Site of Special Scientific Interest, straddling Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire. It is one of 41 Sites of Special Scientific Interest in the county. None of the SSSIs in the county is larger. It lies inside the Chilterns National Landscape.

Other SSSIs nearby include Ivinghoe Hills, Pitstone Hill and Aldbury Nowers. Tring Station is about 1.4 km away to the west.

More places to visit near Ashridge Commons and Woods

Photo of the Chilterns, a National Landscape in England.Highlight

Chilterns

You’re inside itNational Landscape near The Lee

Beech woods and chalk downland within easy reach of London, laced with old ridge paths and grazing red kites

Photo along the Hertfordshire Way, a 195-mile long-distance path in eastern England.Highlight

Hertfordshire Way

Long-distance path

Hertfordshire's grand circuit from the Royce Stone at Royston — chalk streams, commons and country houses for nearly 200 miles.

adjoining · Hertfordshire

Photo: Ivinghoe Beacon, a viewpoint in the Chilterns, Buckinghamshire, south east England.Highlight

Ivinghoe Beacon

Viewpoint near Ivinghoe

Bare chalk hilltop at the north-east end of the Ridgeway, an Iron Age hillfort with sweeping views over three counties.

2 km NW

Photo of Whipsnade White Lion, a hill figure near Ivinghoe in the Chilterns, Bedfordshire, eastern England.Highlight

Whipsnade White Lion

Hill figure near Ivinghoe

A vast recumbent lion cut into Dunstable Downs in the early 1930s to mark the zoo below — big enough to see from the air.

2.5 km N

Photo of College Lake, a nature reserve near Marsworth, Buckinghamshire, south east England.Highlight

College Lake

Nature reserve near Marsworth

Nature reserve in a former chalk quarry near Pitstone, with wetland birds, chalk flowers and a lakeside visitor centre.

3.5 km W

Photo of Whipsnade Tree Cathedral, a folly near Ivinghoe in the Chilterns, Bedfordshire, eastern England.Highlight

Whipsnade Tree Cathedral

Folly near Ivinghoe

A ten-acre garden planted between the wars in the outline of a cathedral, with grass avenues for nave and transepts and 'walls' of trees, a memorial to the fallen.

3.6 km NE